The Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation has announced that it will loan Yuan Dynasty landscape painter Wang Zhenpengs "Glimpses of Grandeur: Vista of the Yuan Landscape" to the Baur Foundations Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva. The painting will be on view at the museum from August 10 to October 3 as part of the World of Circus Geneva 2010 festival.
A master of "Jiehua" or "boundary painting," Wang excelled in capturing and accurately detailing the forms and structures of architecture with the aid of a ruler. The 1323 water and ink handscroll, painted on silk and measuring 30 feet long, depicts everyday life in southern Chinese cities and portrays scenes of social entertainment, like acrobatic street performances.
"Glimpses of Grandeur: Vista of the Yuan Landscape" has previously been exhibited at the prestigious Palace Museum in Beijing. With 9,000 rare artworks from China and Japan, the Museum of Far EasternArt is considered one of the most important East Asian art collections in Switzerland.
Founded in Switzerland in 2002, the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation boasts a collection of more than 1,000 pieces of artworks in a variety of genres from different art movements and schools and includes a number of classical Chinese masterpieces.
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